Dan Burley

Dan Burley ( born November 7, 1907 in Lexington, Kentucky, † October 29, 1962 in Chicago, Illinois ) was an American blues and jazz pianist and journalist.

His family moved in 1917 to Chicago, where he performed at the beginning of his career at parties and in small cafes and played with blues and boogie woogie pianist together. Durley later became a journalist in African American newspapers such as the New York Amsterdam News and the magazine Ebony, where he specialized in theater and sports events. He has played regularly, but usually in private. In 1945, recordings were made with Leonard Feather and Tiny Grimes (A Suite in Four Comfortable Quarters ), 1946 with Lionel Hampton. This year he founded on the advice of the critic Rudi Blesh own formation, Dan Burley and his Skiffle Boys; involved were the bluesmen Brownie McGhee and Pops Foster. With them he played a mixture of jazz, blues and folk song, for which he coined the term skiffle with the help of Leonard Feather, and quickly made known. The recorded tracks such as Big Cat Little Cat, South Side Shake or Shotgun House Rag ( 1946) later received great importance to the skiffle movement in Britain in the 1950s, which was represented by artists such as Chris Barber, Lonnie Donegan and others.

Except with Leonard Feather and Lionel Hampton Dan Burley took on record with Hot Lips Page, Tyree Glenn, Baby Dodds, and Pops Foster. His piano style was a combination of boogie, stride piano and Harlem Swing influences.

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• Circle Blues Sessions (1946 )